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Charlie Munger’s 3 rules for life. https://t.co/lxPFy5H6WY

measure the distance between what you say and what you do. that distance is your entire problem. the closer those two points get to each other, the more powerful you become. when they become the same point, you become unstoppable

World-class performers don’t have superpowers. The rules they’ve crafted for themselves allow the bending of reality to such an extent that it may seem that way, but they’ve learned how to do this, and so can you. These “rules” are often uncommon habits and bigger questions. In a surprising number of cases, the power is in the absurd. The mor... See more

it’s hard for cerebral people to understand how crucial it is to learn by doing rather than thinking and the more uncertain you are about doing the thing the more you’re about to learn

for maximum surface area and serendipity, treat the internet like a notebook, not a printing press

Enjoyment is the best metric for efficiency. Most people think that getting things done quickly is efficient, but a fast car is not always the most efficient car. The way you know that it took the least amount of energy to get things done is how much you enjoyed it.

My theory for self-sabotage is that if you’ve always worked hard, you believe that how much you deserve something comes from how much effort you put in, so when something great happens for you, you feel like you don’t deserve it because you haven’t earned it, so you turn it down and go after something more challenging, something that gives you that... See more

"What would this look like if it were easy?" is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It’s easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you’re not redlining, you’re not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process. But what happens if we fram... See more